Lycos is offering a free screensaver available for Windows Operating System and MacOS. What they do is keep an updated database of websites, which are promoted through Spam mails. The screensaver uses a little bandwidth from the user’s computer to download data from those sites in the background. It is done in such a manner that the web servers running the guilty websites get enough web traffic to slow them down considerably without actually bringing them down. In the end, the spammers pay for the bandwidth used by the web servers and make a potential loss.
Lycos clarifies that none of the sites targeted are hit badly enough that they would go down. Because that would amount to illegal DDoS attack. The concept is being termed as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The screensaver uses little bandwidth on the user side as Lycos claim daily usage would not go above 4megs. Moreover, the combined effort might really help in the long term.
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Lycos clarifies that none of the sites targeted are hit badly enough that they would go down. Because that would amount to illegal DDoS attack. The concept is being termed as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The screensaver uses little bandwidth on the user side as Lycos claim daily usage would not go above 4megs. Moreover, the combined effort might really help in the long term.
Download: http://makelovenotspam.com/intl/mlns.html?lang=en®ion=uk
More Info: Make Love Not Spam: Hit the spammers back